Help! Need advise on wormer/ medicine!

[bharris0426]

Hey guys. So I need some help. This is our second flock. And all of my Current Flock are around four months old. My last walk, I never have any issues health wise. So this is all very new to me. I'm in healthcare, so I know how to treat most small things And my husband was a vet technician and office manager. But i'm never dealt with this, before.And I wanna make sure i'm handling it correctly. We have a mixed flock of 11 Chickens, 2 Ducks, & 2 turkeys. Everyone it's very beautiful healthy and happy. We have eleven acres.They do not free rain right now because of my neighbors.Stupid dogs But they are, in a very large fenced And netted n chicken yard. With a multi-level level open concept coup. I keep it clean. I rotate their litter. Then Two weekends ago I go and buy 4 new chickens. Our Bantam, he keeps getting pushed to the side when it comes to a lot of things. She is the only banty. She does have 2 friends but they bail on her a lot. So I found some birds that were around the same age that would be smaller to give her some companions. 2 bantam silkies, one silkie mix, and a polish. Well we kept them quarantined in a large aquarium in the house so I noticed the 2nd Day after having them the Polish that was the largest one was not seeming 100%. I looked him over and his crop was HUGE and squishy, i realized that he felt super skinny. And had very watery stool. I told the girl that sold them to me and she said that he didn't have trouble that she knew of but to hold food and water and see if his crop went down by the morning. It did. So I still kept them in. I gave him some coconut oil and AVC in his water..(well all of them). He seemed fine. Was eating..drinking..and his diarrhea was gone. So a couple days after that I brought all 4 birds outside to forage some then put them in a large dog pin inside the chicken run so that they could start getting used to each other. I took them out every other day or so, and let them forage and took a look at them And his crop did seem to be swollen again, but not as bad and it only happened at night. And then Yesterday morning, I noticed there was some weird looking poop that looked bloody with a bunch of round worms in it. I'm pretty sure that's what they are. They're long nasty white worms. I have never seen worms in any of my chicken's poop before ever. So of course, this upset me really bad. I was gonna order some corrid And some dewormer. I walked out at five o'clock this morning to feed everybody and he was dead. Number one I was so devastated.I've already got attached this sweet baby.That I named fraggle.. But now, I am terrified that these other 3 are gonna be sick or get sick. And since that dog pen has been located inside of my chicken run, i'm worried about it's the rest of my flock. They didn't have direct contact with the bird, but. I did clean the water and the feeder and scooped up a lot of these wood shavings in the general area of the pen and I'm going to go back out there tonight and shovel up the ground underneath that PeN. I'm gonna keep the chickens out for just a little while, and so try to clean it up so that it helps my brain a little bit. But here's my question my neighbor Has some zfender and some poultry farms natural wormer that he will give me now. Should I treat the three younger ones that were in with him? The younger two are tee, tiny, two months old silkies.. And the other one is a three month old silky mix. I will share some pictures. And should I go ahead and treat my whole Current flock, just in case they got exposed to anything? And should I treat with corid first Just in case? Then a wormer? And do you think the natural wormer would be okay or should I get some safeguard? I know this was a very long tale, and I know this is a a big multi level question. Any help you guys could give me would be great. I work full time in healthcare and I'll be at work from seven am Till six pm tomorrow and I needed to go ahead and order whatever I need now so I can have it tomorrow. I'm very worried about my babies.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Sorry for your loss, sounds like the Polish may have been having some crop problems, possible due to the worms.

If they weren't with your flock, then just clean up the area where the pen was.

I would use either Safeguard liquid goat dewormer or Valbazen.

To treat most worms that poultry can have except for Tapeworm you can use Safeguard (Fenbendazole) or Valbazen (Albendazole). Both are given orally by weight; they do not mix well with water.

Safeguard dose is 0.23ml per pound of weight given orally once a day for 5 days in a row.
---OR---
Valbazen dose is 0.08ml per pound of weight given orally once, then repeated in 10 days

Here's how to give oral medications:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...dications-to-all-poultry-and-waterfowl.73335/

It wouldn't hurt to give a round of Corid too.
Liquid Corid dose is 2tsp or Powdered Corid Dose is 1 1/2tsp per gallon of water given for 5-7 days as the only source of drinking water.
Do not add any extra vitamins/electrolytes that contain B1(Thiamine) to food or water during the course of treatment.

 

[bharris0426]

Thank you SO much!! I really appreciate your help!! I'm going to pick everything up after work today and start everything tomorrow.

 

[bharris0426]

Okay.So I meant to follow up with a question yesterday. Is it okay to treat both at the same time, or should I do corid 1st then do safeguard? I'm not sure what to do. I went out to my coop this morning in the main area. There was some poop on the roof of the coup.Looked like it had a little blood in it. And then I notice one of my Amberlinks "Duckie" was still on her roost Fluffed up and looked very tired. Her comb looks like it's a little pale, too. And for her to not come storming out with the rest of them for food, it's very unusual. I finally talked her down and she drank water, but then she just laid right back down on the ground. No one in my flock has acted sick before today. I just cleaned the entire coop last weekend and there was nothing in anybody's poop that I could see. Several of them are molting. I spoke to the girl that sold me the four newbirds. She checked all of her birds and all of them looked good and were healthy. So do I treat with corid it first? Or do like she said that she believed i should treat worms first? Since the little guy that passed away, had a is very full crop and squishym..I did see worms in his nasty bloody stool The morning before he died. I'm sorry. I know no one on here is a vet And I wish I could bring them in right now, but I can't. I am very worried. I cannot lose my sweet girls. Or boys that I have raised since they were they were day old babies. I love them so much! Thanks so much for the help and advice.

 

[Eggcessive]

It is okay to treat with the wormer given orally, and the Corid in the water at the same time.

 

[bharris0426]

Thank you so much.I have been making myself sick.I went and picked everything up from tractor supply on my way home just a little bit ago. And I'm praying my sweet ducky is okay when I go to check on her. I just adore her. She is gorgeous with the most beautiful markings, and she has the sweetest personality. I've been making myself sick over this. I have a terrible headache because I kept reading that you needed to treat with one. Let it get out of their system for a few days and then Start the other. So i've just been making myself crazy asking myself which one is more important 1st. I may have two isolated issues going on our both together. But again, thank you so much.I really appreciate y'alls support

 

[bharris0426]

Thank everyone for lending me your ear and giving me some good advice. All my sweet babies got better!! Now I have a new issue I'm about to post about.